002. Rhode Island Collection

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The collection includes notebooks and scrapbooks which include newspaper and magazine clippings, manuscript and ephemeral material, and photographs documenting the history of yachting in Rhode Island as well as its coverage in Providence newspapers.

Scope and Contents This collection documents the Kings & Queen Bar in Woonsocket, R.I. as well as the LGBT community in Rhode Island from the 1970s-early 2000s. The bulk of the collection includes photographs and videos, but additional clippings, event calendars and ephemera are included. Materials represent the bar as a gay social space and include events such as holiday parties, drag shows and fundraisers as well as events for the LGBT community sponsored by the bar including bi-annual picnics, roller...

Scope and Contents The Ecology Action for Rhode Island newsletters collection consists of newsletters sent to its membership, at the time composed of around 500 members, between the years 1970 and 1974. The newsletters relay information from Ecology Action’s working committees, including Education, Land Use, Legislation, Pesticides, Nuclear, and Recycling. These committees respectively promoted and informed Ecology Action members about relevant news, opinion pieces, and organizational initiatives happening in...

Scope and Contents This collection contains materials and ephemera created and collected by R. Tripp Evans and Edward B. Cabral related to the fight for marriage equality in the state of Rhode Island, including but not limited to photographs, newspapers, promotional video, t-shirts, and protest signage. Items from the nonprofit organizations Marriage Equality Rhode Island (MERI) and Rhode Islanders United for Marriage are represented here as well. This collection also features photographs, stationery, and...

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Includes correspondence to Helen Fitts, resident of Providence, Rhode Island from family and friends serving within the U.S. Army during World War 1 including Arthur Leroy Bolton, Ernest Jamieson, Fred E. Stockwell, and H. Wallace Burton.

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Collection contains materials related to Interweave at Channing Memorial Church in Newport, Rhode Island including organizational reports, clippings and records related to advocacy for marriage equality and events organizing.

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Collection includes one photograph album holding photographs and captions documenting U.S. Senator Theodore Francis Green’s 74th birthday dinner sponsored by the Town Criers of Rhode Island at the Providence Biltmore, October 2, 1941. Guests include a number of United States Senators as well as prominent Rhode Island figures.

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Collection contains materials related to an unidentified gay man including a photograph album showing costume parties, beach outings and a womanless wedding as well as a portrait of the man at the beach wearing a costume dress made of seaweed and a collage of portraits of him at various vacation locations including Pinehaven Camp, Nausuket Beach, Sebago Lake, Pinewood Camp and Matunuck Beach. Also included is a set of reproduction photographs related to railroad stations in Providence.

Scope and Contents The collection consists of a line-a-day diary of Dorothy Hackney kept while she lived in Providence and Dobbs Ferry, New York during the years of the First World War. The diary represents the musings and activities of a young female student from an upper class family who lived on the East Side of Providence. Prominent Providence families are mentioned throughout the years such as Chapin, Herreshoff, Allen and Rathbun. The bulk of the diary describes her social life, school, friends and...

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This documentary video documents the cultural attitudes of teenagers in the 1990s related to homosexuality and LGBTQ civil rights. Content warning - this video does include hate speech and derogatory language.